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zed260 @ 21st Oct 09:02PM:
lets make charter abdon bandwithcaps

everybody should email Andrea.Brown@chartercom.com and complain about them maybe if we get enough emails to him they wont even try and enforce them
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BF69 @ 21st Oct 09:12PM:
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said by zed260 :

everybody should email Andrea.Brown@chartercom.com and complain about them maybe if we get enough emails to him they wont even try and enforce them
Well they COULD be enforcing them. But haven't heard anyone complain about them doing so. Also the cap is 250 GB for 20 Mbps which I suspect very few even go over. My household which is constantly on the internet hardly goes over 60 GB a month. Caps are stupid and at least the should be consistant. Not sure what speed has to do with the amount you download. Even someone on the 1 Mbps could download over 300 GB a month. A person on the 20 Mbps tier might only use 10 GB. So if they insist on a cap it should be 250 GB for everyone.
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hootabius @ 21st Oct 09:15PM:
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said by zed260 :

everybody should email Andrea.Brown@chartercom.com and complain about them maybe if we get enough emails to him they wont even try and enforce them
Emails to HIM? Andrea? I'm pretty sure you don't even know who's email this is beyond their name.
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zed260 @ 21st Oct 09:17PM:
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hes the person in charge of executive escalation at charter
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hootabius @ 21st Oct 09:23PM:
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By "him", i meant that it is probably not a man based on the name Andrea. So I would venture a guess that you didn't talk to this person directly. How can you be sure they are in charge of "executive escalation" (I've never heard of such a department)?
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zed260 @ 21st Oct 09:27PM:
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well based on fact that »consumerist.com/266912/contact-c···eil-smit

i sent email to ceo and he sent me to andrea brown
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anon @ 25th Oct 02:44AM:
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so zed it appears after you were DEAD WRONG with all your posts and predictions about charter dying, going under, "so long charter, this is your new cause? spam some lady at charter about a policy that impacts none of us?
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Lazlow @ 24th Oct 08:46PM:
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Until they start enforcing the caps, I would say do not rock the boat. From what I have heard putting a advertised cap on was to prevent the FCC from looking into them for being non transparent, on those few cases that they actually were kicking people off (1.5TB/month and more). It also gave the stockholders that warm fuzzy feeling that they were keep up with the Jones.
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Margolis @ 24th Oct 09:02PM:
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how about zed260 just finding another isp? You seem to hate charter so much, why bother posting here?
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Lazlow @ 24th Oct 09:18PM:
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Margolis

If he is like a LOT of the rest of us, he may not have much choice in the matter.
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techyguy09 @ 24th Oct 09:44PM:
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You always have a choice...
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Margolis @ 24th Oct 10:27PM:
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said by Lazlow :

Margolis

If he is like a LOT of the rest of us, he may not have much choice in the matter.
if you have ever paid attention to these forums though, you will see he does nothing but spam this place with negative posts about charter. It just gets tiresome.

plus, you say "us". I see you live in St. louis like me, which means there are other options. They aren't as good as charter, but there are options.
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markopoleo @ 24th Oct 10:32PM:
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No reason to email them, Charter knows customers hate caps its not news to them.

Lucky for us it seems to be just a press release still and never enforced. Kind of like lots of things charter does.. *cough* 60meg
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Lazlow @ 24th Oct 10:34PM:
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Unfortunately in my neighborhood, there is not. We used to be able to get 1.5Mbps dsl(at best) but when Uverse came through they pulled the RT that we hooked to, then they did not extend Uverse through our neighborhood(it ends about 6 blocks away). It was pretty funny becuase my neighbor had dsl. ATT told him he would be able to switch to Uverse, they pulled the RT and whoops no Uverse(he is on charter now).
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Margolis @ 24th Oct 11:02PM:
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there are other dsl providers. there is satellite, there is cricket wireless broadband....

charter is the best among the bunch, but there are options, if if they do suck big time.
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Lazlow @ 24th Oct 11:32PM:
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Virtually all the dsl providers in St Louis run on ATT equipment(last mile).

Cricket has a 5GB/month cap, as Charter's 250GB cap is an issue that pretty much eliminates it.

Satellite needs a clear view of the southern sky, which in a lot of St. Louis is not possible(particularly in my neighborhood, trees here).
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Margolis @ 24th Oct 11:41PM:
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like I said "they do suck" but they are options.

and it's not just the cap that zed hates, he hates absolutely everything there is about charter.
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TheBatmanLOL @ 25th Oct 02:47AM:
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I'm new to all this stuff...

But can anyone tell me how I could see if I've gone past my "Bandwith cap"?
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pbarrow @ 25th Oct 02:56AM:
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you would do better to get everyone to email their congressmen and complain about Caps and lack of network neutrality.
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Lazlow @ 25th Oct 10:35AM:
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Batman

That is currently one of the issues, their is no standard bandwidth meter to check. You can add third party firmwares to most routers to keep track and for windows there are a number of applications you can run to track it(needs to be installed on all machines connected to work).
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BF69 @ 25th Oct 11:21AM:
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said by TheBatmanLOL :

I'm new to all this stuff...

But can anyone tell me how I could see if I've gone past my "Bandwith cap"?
Do your download movies from torrents? If so then you are probably going over the cap.
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BlakePaulson @ 25th Oct 02:22PM:
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Thats a bs theory. I have directv and use the on demand service and frequently go over the cap because of that. Otherwise the occasional tv show I have to get because a football or baseball game goes over and ruins my recordings.
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Flak @ 25th Oct 09:44PM:
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So the 20/2 plan has a 250gb cap? Thought it was unlimited, or was that changed when they started testing the 60mb plan in MO? Hopefully they don't enforce it because I go over 250gb a month on slow months.

For instance, Oct has been an extremely slow month for me (lots of traveling) and right now I'm at 247.27gb total bandwidth used as of 10/25 8:44pm CST.
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apply17 @ 26th Oct 12:17AM:
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:)
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BF69 @ 26th Oct 01:19AM:
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said by Flak :

So the 20/2 plan has a 250gb cap? Thought it was unlimited, or was that changed when they started testing the 60mb plan in MO? Hopefully they don't enforce it because I go over 250gb a month on slow months.

For instance, Oct has been an extremely slow month for me (lots of traveling) and right now I'm at 247.27gb total bandwidth used as of 10/25 8:44pm CST.
The caps started in February. 60 Meg has no cap. The 20 meg tier has 250 GB cap, 5 and 10 meg tiers are 100 GB per month.
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BF69 @ 26th Oct 01:19AM:
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said by apply17 :

:)
So how much of that is legal downloading?
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Margolis @ 26th Oct 02:42AM:
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apply17, what did you use for that?
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apply17 @ 26th Oct 03:57AM:
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said by Margolis :

apply17, what did you use for that?
To record the logs? Tomato firmware on a WRT54GL
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jarablue @ 26th Oct 10:13AM:
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"60 meg has no cap"

Which doesn't really matter because pretty much no one has 60 meg. So right about now Charter caps almost everyone.

Does anyone know what the cost is for the overage? Is it per megabyte/bit gigabyte/bit?

Or is it the elusive "we know and that's all that matters?"
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anon @ 26th Oct 02:05PM:
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I've got : October 2009 (Incoming: 64472 MB / Outgoing: 179568 MB) So far this month on a 10Mb connection, I haven't noticed any affects yet, is this one of those people that like to complain for no reason?
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Margolis @ 26th Oct 02:51PM:
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said by crusty :

is this one of those people that like to complain for no reason?
Yes, zed does absolutely nothing here except bash charter. That's why I made my first post.
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anon @ 29th Oct 09:06AM:
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I don't know exact details, but I watch streaming movies on netflix all day and I'm sure I'm way over the cap. I've never heard anything from Charter.
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anon @ 8th Nov 07:52AM:
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250GB for everyone would be fair. I've gone over 100GB twice since it started (that I know of, I couldn't get anyone to tell me on the phone what date it reset each month). I'll likely go over 100GB this month. I haven't come close to 250GB though and that seems like a very fair number. I do have uncapped DSL as an alternative if it gets bad.
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BoMarty @ 8th Nov 08:18PM:
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I wont be emailing anyone my 505 GB transfer for both DL and UL during the month of October. Wait, I dont have caps, nevermind :)
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